At EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Jani Ruscica’s video work Human Flesh (2019) is featured in the newly opened Saastamoinen Foundation Collection exhibition Alien in Me. Within the exhibition, alienation and the perspective of the outsider are approached as possibilities for reimagining the world and its structures. Boundaries once perceived as stable –between human and non-human, body and machine, gender identities, and cultural or linguistic belonging – appear increasingly fluid and interconnected.
Ruscica’s episodic ‘Human Flesh’ explores how sensory experience can be passed on via language, gestures, forms, sounds and images. The short film takes place in a white space where the proportions of people and objects are blurred.
Alien in Me is curated by EMMA’s Director Krist Gruijthuijsen, and it celebrates the longstanding collaboration between EMMA and the Saastamoinen Foundation. The exhibition features works by over 50 artists, bringing together recent acquisitions alongside earlier works from the collection.
Image: Jani Ruscica, Human Flesh, 2019, 2K video, stereo, 16 min, ed. 5